00116 you're okay we should be we should be live remember to use your mics all right if anybody is watching from home we are just waiting uh a couple more minutes for Dr St to get in hey do I got you here so was a little closer thanks [Music] yes those mics are what we're installed so that we do not have to have mics for anybody that would speak from the audience for the ray or for our administrative team so now we should be up and running Mr crazy double checking the levels when people are going to be talking so that hopefully it's being received appropriately on the other end all right well we'll start we get started uh with the committee meeting first we'll discuss the increasing the teacher substitute pay to 70% of
002the base salary beginning next school year yeah so as you probably recall we're currently at $160 a day so we're talking for just shortterm um subbing not for long-term Subs um that there there's no recommended change for long-term Subs because if they go long term over 20 days I think is a 20 lure yes then they revert to a daily rate that's based off of our base wage already um and that's fairly standard in terms of my experience but uh I I've recently been informed that both oio and unity have increased their daily sub rate pay to around $180 an hour and as a result of that in thinking this through in terms of um you know hopefully well we already have attached it to um anytime we would have a wage increase which we're
003we'll be talking about a potential staff wage increase in a month or so then that sub rate would increase as well by um roughly similar percentage and so the district had engaged in that practice which meant that that number would incrementally increase at least over time with the modification from moving to 160 to 180 uh and changing it to a 70% of Base that puts you in that sweet spot and My Hope Is that we then keep Pace um with regular frequency for modifications in when then our base rate increases with future our teaching base rate increases with future wage adjustments that that number being 70% of that base will as well and keep Pace with what we're seeing in other districts and hopefully potentially even outpace that but we'll have to pay attention to
004it so 70% of base right now base is 49230 they are 19 days contract so you divide that by 190 days and then you divide that by or you multiply that by 70% or by 7 and you get $181 and some out Cent so what we do is just round down to 180 and in the future then when that's modified then there would be a modification as a result of action on wages for staff generally so the long and short of it is it would move our rates for next year from 160 to 180 and then hopefully keep Pace with some incremental increase over time per day per day why round down U just making the whole number I mean we could go to 185 it was just what's easiest for reflection rather than having
005you know $130 or whatever it is and so we would round up if it got to a number that was to the nextx five right and is rounding and easily written into the handbook doesn't this have to be reflected in our handbook yeah what we'll do is uh well wait is sub pay in the handbook uh yes we need to change it cuz there's a dollar amount listed so what we do is it reflected as 70% of the base rounded to the nearest 10 and that should be pretty self-explanatory because if it was one or the nearest the nearest five pardon me is if it was 183 we just round 185 is it a difference for longterm sub then or no yeah so longterm Subs after 20 days are at the bachelor's um uh daily
006rate anyway and that is is significantly higher than 180 that's uh what I can tell you 259 at our current base and what's our average number of Subs a day you oh boy um I don't know off the top of my head but it's rare that we don't have a sub in the building in any building any day so it kind of depends it's a symptom of circumstance but we at least have boy TR to think of an average average per day is what five do you think guys five Subs all right any other questions move on to the eccp the early college credit program there was a pile 35 y that's pretty status quo those are evaluated of course for ensuring that they pass muster and and are credits that are not available here
007at St Falls High School and so forth but kind of like open enrollment we don't really have an opportunity to say no you can't do this as long as it passes our expectations and policy so any questions or comments on those hearing none we'll move on to the Canadian 2025 FFA Canada Trip which we've been doing for many many years look like it's the same um protocol Mr Walts Mr CET going up with a group of students who have earned it in that the program pretty much with minimal Financial impact I think it was $100 per student out of pocket great opportunity yep and if they can't afford it there's alternative U alternative methods for getting that taken care of any other questions or comments great thing the kids talk about for yeah y for
008sure I regret not going when I was there maybe they'll need another shot all right hearing done I'll call the board meeting to order we'll start with the pled of Allegiance Pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repic for it stands one nation indivisible withy and justice for all all right we do roll call M bra here TOA rager Steve B here Ronnie Scher here Brent MCC here all right uh Matt do you have the yep right the mission statement the mission of the school district of St Cy Falls is to provide a supportive student centered learning environment that cultivates character Fosters academic excellence and Embraces diversity the board meeting rules focus on the mission vision statements of the district come prepared be respectful of others and and
009accepting of ideas actively participate avoid side conversations remember board meetings or open Forum thank you Matt we'll go to superintendent's comments principales first principal sorry I clicked on that a little early we'll start with you Mr Wilson sounds good a couple things going on it's the end of the third quarter this Friday which is hard to believe but we're uh heading into the busiest stretch of the year for the high school world so I'm going to have a senior class meeting on Monday to go over uh fourth quarter expectations attendance policies and procedures all that good stuff and they lay off from here until graduation night with them and I also sent an email home my parents or it's it's going out tonight explaining some of those things too and I'll follow that up with
010a letter in a couple weeks so yeah home stretches is here um act uh was two weeks ago and then we had had act retakes to today we had three kids do that and we've got two left for retake in two weeks so winding that up with a lot of help from Mr cray uh we're now shifting gears into the prea season so not only is it fourth quarter but it's testing season um so preac for n9th and 10th graders um that'll include working with Miss bman to pull together a prep session for those kids as well so they're well prepared and ready to go for that testing day um I have not had any luck yet um finding a director for our play um that's been posted out there for quite a while and
011I've been contacting a few different people Isaac and a few different people to try to you know shake the bushes and and find someone and we haven't had any luck yet so I'll continue to do that and reach out but at this point we're sitting in no man plan so hopefully we can pull something together soon so we can get planning that for the fall potentially um and then the last thing just to be aware of we're we offering the youth risk behavior survey on Thursday of this week so that's a CDC thing um state of Wisconsin a lot of districts in the state of Wisconsin offer this survey to their students it's an anonymous survey students go online and punch in a code that is just for our school um no names or demographic
012information is used and asks a bunch of different questions on um healthy and risky behaviors of students and then we utilize that in the school counseling program in the health curricular areas to kind of determine what you know where kids are at those type of things so um an example would be um vaping you know how how common are people vaping or seeing it or that type of thing another couple examples would be seat belt usage um um hours of sleep per night per student so that survey is happening on Thursday I have already sent out the opt out letter to All Families so if families don't want their kids to take it they can send that opto letter back in they've got about 10 of them so I would say that's what I have
013all right thank you Mr MH uh the week before spring break the middle school had an anti-bullying campaign uh we had dress up days daily messaging at school and on social media along with a number of activities that the kids did uh it was organized by our Saints for change Group which remember is a pilot group between us and F County Health and Mr Torres uh State testing for fifth for grades 5 through eight next Tuesday April 1st uh the staff is working this week to get the kiddos ready for the test and I think we're ready to go um spring Sports will also be starting next week on Monday with track we have 60 plus kids signed up as of now and the annual talent show will be April 17th audition started yesterday and
014Miss Becker came down to my office yesterday afternoon and said you're not going to believe all the talent we have here so I don't know if all the good ones went first or what but I'm excited to see it very good thank you Miss plat well the good news is Mrs Peterson returned from her maternity leave today and her baby boy Finn is adorable and healthy and um that means that it's almost time for Mrs rager to go out on maternity leave and Maddie Nichols will cover for her as well and it's almost time for Mr rer to go out on paternity leave for an entirely different baby and he will have Mrs Gillan as his long-term sub um Mrs Efrat the bad news is Mrs Efrat has she her she's an amazing her amazing
015fourth grade teacher her husband is taking his dream job in California so that's good news for him but bad news for us because Mrs eatate must go where her husband goes so she sent me a letter of resignation this week um Sam roach is going to come over from the Middle School return to her Elementary School roots and we're excited about that the annual family dance with a Hollywood Nights theme is on Friday and we are finishing up changes to the master schedule that need to be made due to the 4kk switch but all is well and we're humming along at the elementary school and dresser very good thank you now we can go to superintendent fantastic well I only have 45 minutes worth for you tonight um actually with spring break last week for
016most of our students and staff they um isn't a ton but want to let you know that uh Josh Tyler our school resource officer and I had a meeting with um uh local law enforcement as well as County Law Enforcement and Emergency Management talking about some things with respect to our crisis plan and things we're going to put in place uh both here in the short term and then in the in the long term uh that was during spring break week and so I think that was a a fruitful and beneficial meeting uh there isn't really a ton of substance as we're talking about cohesively developing some things at the whole pole county level uh in terms of access to school district crisis plans and identifying some Sim similarities that they'd like to see that
017sort of thing during that conversation I also spoke with um um I'm forgetting the the gentleman's name he's a captain I think a captain with uh poine insurance department but indicated that um when you have uh deputies out on patrol they're welcome to stop by our school simply ring in and say that they're just there to walk through and check it out because I think it's awesome to have law enforcement involved in our schools and I have kids you know get to see and interact with with the cops because my brother is a cop although I don't recommend interacting with him because he's kind of he's a good guy um but anyway so uh that I think was a beneficial meeting and and we're going to move forward on some hopefully on some cing lde
018initiatives with respect to school safety and crisis response um the other thing is that uh we currently have five applications for the Middle School principal position and um timeline then appears to be um you know holding tight we'll uh do interview process sometime uh during the month of April and hopefully have a name for you folks for potential approval come May um we will put together a fairly comprehensive team to to conduct the the interviews um and hopefully we had a decent candidate upon review of the five I can tell you that um two of the five have experience direct experience as an administrator currently and three of the five do not but have some unique things that they might bring to the table so the application so far look pretty pretty decent um don't
019know how many people will bring in total interview necessarily yet we'll wait and see what we look at in terms of how many people applied and what qualifications to bring to the table make some determinations there but I'm guessing anywhere between four and six that's what I think um so that's moving along we also have uh no updates currently on information coming from the Department of AD and what that means and so that uh is still a holding pattern for most school districts in the state and probably the nation because it's still not clear what the implications are as I mentioned last time I think the broader implications are what might come in terms of funding reduction not necessarily who's responsible for overseeing the programs um and that we don't know at this stage um
020on the state level the state government will begin working on their budget in in Earnest relatively soon and in that regard we have no additional details on the 25 27 Bal budget that will be in development relatively shortly here although um I'm getting an update next week uh with respect to what things are looking like at the capital and if anything of substance comes from that I'll be sure to let you guys know all right thank you all right uh board M comments related to training um I guess I wasn't here last month when we did this portion and I didn't report on the State Convention so I'll wing it here tonight um again very pleased with the the convention uh I thought all the uh keynote speakers were very good uh this year um
021and it seemed to have a theme I don't know about kind of building morale and uh kind of that uh what things you can do to help you know retain staff and bring staff in positive cultures and all that kind of stuff uh they all had different ways of doing it but unique ways of talking about it but it was uh very good um I think one of the other I went to one session um where it sounded like they were going to try to get Schoolboard presidents and members together at more not not just through Aisa but through more uh Regional type things maybe about smaller than Aisa and I was looking forward to that one too just to you know even if you get names and contact numbers so you can collaborate and
022different things ask questions and uh oo president sat next to me we exchanged phone numbers and that was about the end of it uh because you know the room was over double booked or something like that so we got started late so half the presentation you know I didn't even get um you know they didn't get to go through it because they were going to break us down into regions and areas and do that but they they didn't have time um I caught an interesting one Brian that I've got some information I probably should have passed on a long time ago but just on cyber security different things I can't remember which cisa has some programs and things you can use to bounce some ideas off you know whatever just again just to have a
023resource or something to talk to or whatever but I'll pass that information on to you um you know it's some other typical I well I was the I was not pleased with the the uh delegate assembly it seemed you know they couldn't get the technology to work and you know we were there forever it went along um and a lot of uh people just saying the same thing over and over and over uh so was not uh I don't know I thought that was almost a waste of time this year but normally I enjoy that but so other than that I think that the conference is good I enjoyed the hotel I thought uh having the breakfast right and a little happy or they called it a happy Happ have had food there was it
024was nice within walking distance so it's another option I mean granted it wasn't 40 either so that makes a difference they did have buses too um all right anybody else have an opportunity for training last month all right we don't have any public comment or Awards so we'll move on to the consent agenda make a motion to approve the consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented there we have a motion by Ronnie second second by Matt any further discussion all those in favor say I I I oppos motion carries we move on to curriculum and policy we have the review a vote on the Northern School District trust 2025 annual meeting delegate we talked about that last meeting right y I think Matt agreed to do it again but
025he might not go I'll make a motion to nominate Matt as our and School District trust 2025 annual meeting delegate I'll second it we have a motion by Ron and the second by Steve any further discussion all those in favor say I I oppos motion carries uh for a motion to review the or vote on the 202 25 FFA Canada Trip the eccp oh sorry you're good um I'll take a motion to vote to approve the applications for the 35 early college credit program applicants I motion a motion by Matt I'll second it second by din any further discussion all those in favor say I I oppos motion carries all right now we'll move on and approve the 2025 FFA Canada triail I'll make a motion to approve the FFA C motion by Steve I'll
026second second by Ronnie any further discussion all those in favor say I I I osed motion carries um go on to personnel and review and vote on the addition of a halftime custodian substitute which is something that we discussed at the last meeting correct want to review it again for us yeah so the request came from Brian Warner the uh buildings and grounds Department indicating that um there's two fold reason behind the request first off would be a 4H hour day like 3 to 7 or 4 to8 sort of shi that someone would be uh spending the majority of their time here in the boardroom and the Performing Arts Center Fine Arts Center um and Associated area just with general cleaning and and maintenance and upkeep um there wasn't any additional time devoted to this
027portion when it was uh constructed and secondarily that this person would be the go-to in terms of custodial substitute when various shifts would be um in need of a so and what I mentioned last uh uh meeting was this the same as I would mention for um our teacher subs or any other kind of sub position and that is it's not easy to find people that are available to sub and frankly a lot of the subs that we utilize particularly in the custodial area are those that are um retired and are doing other things during the winter uh that don't include staying in s Cory Falls so um having somebody uh kind of on call or to fill in as needed in that area is going to be hugely beneficial which means means that it
028technically won't be a halftime position it will probably be you know a minimum of 4 hours a day 5 days a week and a maximum of 40 hours a week if if there's enough um subing opportunities but somewhere in between that I have a question so if they're um doing 4our days five days a week and they get called into sub on Friday um or is there any situation in which they could end up over 40 hours I don't believe so because in and of course Brian would be able to more than adequately answer the question typically we have some advanced warning that individuals are gone since this is a second shift sort of Gig if we needed like two subs for example we would have this person slotted in during the day and then
029they'd be done so they would never necessarily work over eight hours in a day it wouldn't be an expectation that they would do an eight hour shift and then the four so the four would take a back seat the portion that they have associated with being here you know and working through uh areas of this facility would take a back seat to to the sub gate so technically no and if since it's a second Shi is you know 4 to 8 or 3 to 7 we're going to most of the time know when that shift change is going to take place and whether or not it be four or eight hours is the only determination we should be able have to make and on the regular does this addition get enough use to occupy someone
030for 4 hours daily um I think if not 100% no so they're going to be doing other miscellaneous things that kind of get left behind for uh with other custodians something as simple as cleaning windows so that doesn't happen as frequently as it probably could because again our custodians are are top-notch and they're no one standing around in terms of that um world and there's always some miscellaneous things that can get can uh get picked up on areas that we might not clean as frequently as they could be cleaned as a result of staffing issues and that sort of thing so um no there'll be multiple things for this person to do and I have no question that they'll be busy for the four hours if that's all they're doing sorry but again will this
031qualify for benefits if it's a half pay so to start out with the answer to that question would be probably no however because of the Affordable Care Act when they do a one-year look back at that averages um close to that 32 hours a week then they would be eligible for benefit so a benefit package may be in eventuality the year depending upon because the ACA is always a a 12 month look back so it's reflective in year one I don't believe it would be it it come with Benefits because the plan is that they're halftime which would not be benefit eligible but after this the first year so whenever the 12E look back is if they have that met that 32-hour threshold then they would be eligible for battles yeah then this position would
032be U like immediate or would it start like through I'm asking I guess is it through the summer then um it would be through the summer uh and no is it through the summer yes I think it is and um I'm not 100% clear when Brian wanted to started to be honest with you I think that he's going to post and see what we can get if we can get somebody to come in and start doing it sooner than later we'll do that y if there is a um person and I I this is hypothetical completely person that is like one of our bus drivers so they're getting hours as a bus they want to do this job too then they would be more conserned more full time correct y so and as a standard
033route driver it wouldn't work because of the time frame but if it's somebody that's picking up hours to drive um athletic trips or field trips that kind of thing then yeah they could be eligible sooner than later any other questions right we make a motion I'll make a motion to remove the addition of a halftime custodian substitute there's a motion by Ronnie I'll second it second by Steve any further discussion all those in favor say I I oppose do we have to roll call yeah I was going to do we have to roll call that because it's um we don't have to but we can we don't roll call normal okay Personnel that's good um all right so I'll say it again all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries all right we'll
034go down and talk about the cesa contract for 2526 again that was something that was presented to us in the last meeting there was no changes basically right correct um and it's become clear um as of late last evening that we may have to contract with cesa for school psychology Services um but we don't have thetive answer to that question yet because there was another candidate that Shel was going to reach out to um but that would be an add-on and then of course when we would do that I'll bring forward what those costs would be for approval of that add-on uh but we don't know that in the short term so as of right now yes it's pretty much comparable to this past this school year pardon me 2425 with about a 4% increase
035just a normal increase yeah correct so do we have to do we have to note that in the voting that that Amendment would come forward later or no because you're going to approve what's in the contract and that's not part of the contract so you're good to go and then when it is added I'll bring forward what that cost is and and seek action on that all right I'll take a motion to approve the 20226 C us contract I'll um make that approval to or approval for the 2025 26 cesa shared services contract motion by din I'll second second by Irani any further discussion all those in favor say I I oppose motion carries announ announcement uh the board of campuses and St um okay so we need uh no later than 9:00 a.m. on
036Tuesday April 8th so usually I think we do it at like 8:30 so that we convene before then um it would be DC and since you're not in the ballot you could do it if you wanted to if you don't you'd have to ask somebody else and then I would get to doing it unless somebody else wants to do it I mean if you want to come in yeah that'd be perfect and then Tuesday Tuesday April 8th yeah that works good for me um we'll do it at 8:30 does that work and then um should I'll just do it like in the past to other people from the district office we've had um um usually Betsy and Tammy because they're both in District sure might be a little more work with the right figure it
037out yeah all right we we don't need a motion for any of that okay upcoming events uh April 1st is the spring election so that's coming up here pretty quick and we do have one uh right in candidate that has officially turned into paperwork right yep um and then April 3rd was that joint Pac Boe uh cesa meeting in at Turtle Lake I don't I expressed interest in is it is it too late to confirm I already I registered you all yesterday okay all right because so I I was in that okay and secured care so good for Joe well maybe Joe maybe my mom no care for Joe I care oh yeah I care for Joe daily I provide that care care yeah L of it all right yeah so we'll have to leave
038here around 5:30 yep I think we'll between L and I remember to reserve a district vehicle and head over there 5:30 all right sounds good uh then we have the April April 8th committee meeting uh um again at 5:15 and a reminder that April 21st is a Monday meeting so put that make a note on your calendar for that one and that's the one I will not be will not be there all right Matt rules of the meeting all right we focused on the mission vision statements of the district became prepared we respectful of others and open accepting of ideas actively participated avoided site conversations and remembered board meeting s open for thank you Matt all right I'll take a motion to adjourn to Executive session uh pursu to section 19. 851c of Wisconsin statutes
039I'll meet that motion motion by Steve second second by Ronnie we'll do a roll call vote Matt bra yes Christina rager yes Steve bont yes Ronnie Schuler yes Brent mcer yes with that we are in close session thank you Schoolboard thank you ADV team